Welcome to the Mountain Forum Online Library! This Library is a collection of material focused on sustainable mountain development issues in an electronic form. It was established in 1996, with members of the Forum contributing academic articles, abstracts, features, reports, theses, bibliographic references and web resources, amongst others.

About the Library

The resources in the Library are of several types, and include full-text documents, bibliographic references, periodicals, and reference material. Each of these can be accessed by using the relevant links on the left of this page. The material in the Library is mostly in English, with some in French, Spanish and Russian as well. We hope to build the non-English language content considerably.

We encourage visitors to use the Library to its fullest potential, both by seeking out relevant material as well as by contributing their own material to the Library. You can contribute material by clicking here. It is this spirit of sharing which has given the Library its depth, and we hope that this will continue in the years to come.

New Features

All full-text documents have been formatted in a standard manner and are available for downloading in MS Word or PDF formats
All full-text documents carry mandatory information to provide credibility to the document
Key words have been added to each full-text document to give you more efficient search results
Abstracts of full-text documents are provided where available

Contact the Library

If you have any questions, or have any problems in accessing or contributing material, please contact us at:

Tel: +977-1-500 3222
Fax: +977-1-500 3277
Email: library[at]mtnforum[dot]org

Latest additions to the library

Animal husbandry in Africa: Climate change impacts and adaptations - S Niggol Seo; Robert Mendelsohn;

Climate change and poverty in Africa: Mapping hotspots of vulnerability - Philip K Thornton; Peter G Jones; Tom Owiyo; Russell L Kruska; Mario Herrero; Victor Orindi; Suruchi Bhadwal; Patti Kristjanson; An Notenbaert; Nigat Bekele; Abisalom Omolo;

Viet Nam’s agrarian transition in the Central Highland frontier: An example of agricultural intensification and extension among smallholders? - Richard Owens;

Registros adicionales de Atelopus nahumae y Atelopus laetissimus para la Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta, Colombia - Juan M Carvajalino-Fernández; Borish Cuadrado-Peña; Martha P Ramírez-Pinilla;

Bicycle ambulances in Nepal - Practical Action Nepal;

Poverty, pastoralism and policy in Ngorongoro: Lessons learned from the Ereto I Ngorongoro Pastoralist Project with implications for pastoral development and the policy debate - Naomi Kipuri; Carol Sørensen;

Climate change and human rights: A rough guide - International Council on Human Rights Policy (ICHRP);

Community forest management for whom? Learning from field experience in Vietnam - Nguyen Quang Tan; Yurdi Yasmi; Tran Ngoc Thanh; Hoang Huy Tuan;

Droits pastoraux, modes de vie et adaptation au changement climatique - Michele Nori; Michael Taylor; Alessandra Sensi;

Beyond counting: Biodiversity drives system Earth - Christian Körner;

Indigenous knowledge and practice for waste free tourism in Khumbu region - Hari Krishna Uprety;

Mountain systems - Christian Körner; M Ohsawa;

Seeds that give: Participatory plant breeding - Ronnie Vernooy;

Credibility crunch: Food, poverty, and climate change - an agenda for rich-country leaders - Max Lawson;

Making schools inclusive: How change can happen - Helen Pinnock;

Don't call it Shangri-la: Economic programmes for displaced populations in Nepal - Dale Buscher; Lauren Heller;

Coca and colonists: Quantifying and explaining forest clearance under coca and anti-narcotics policy regimes - Andrew V Bradley; Andrew C Millington;

Meeting energy needs in Langtang - Hari Krishna Uprety;

Survival of the fittest: Pastoralism and climate change in East Africa - Mary Kirkbride; Richard Grahn;

Total historical land-use change in eastern Bolivia: Who, where, when, and how much? - Timothy J Killeen; Anna Guerra; Miki Calzada; Lisette Correa; Veronica Calderon; Liliana Soria; Belem Quezada; Marc K Steininger;

Revolt and remember: How the Shimshal Nature Trust develops and sustains social-ecological resilience in northern Pakistan - Mehjabeen Abidi-Habib; Anna Lawrence;

Indigenous knowledge and values in planning for sustainable forestry: Pikangikum First Nation and the Whitefeather Forest Initiative - R Michael O'Flaherty; Iain J Davidson-Hunt; Micheline Manseau;

The dynamics of social capital and conflict management in multiple resource regimes: A case of the southwestern highlands of Uganda - Pascal C Sanginga; Rick N Kamugisha; Andrienne M Martin;

Communication management and trust: Their role in building resilience to “surprises” such as natural disasters, pandemic flu and terrorism - P H Longstaff; Sung-Un Yang;

Tourism in Nepal - Nakul Chettri;

Bridging the mountainous divide: A case for ICTs for mountain women - Helen Aitkin;

The hills of Bangladesh: Endangered ecology - Nizamuddin Ahmed; Mohammad Hassan Al-Mamun;

Agricultural technologies of terraced rice cultivation in the Ailao Mountains, Yunnan, China - Adachi Shimpei;

Keeping recovery on course: Challenges facing the Pakistan earthquake response one year on - Kate Simpson; Shaheen Chughtai;

Mountain issues and communities In Chittagong Hill Tracts of Bangladesh - Mahafuz Ullah;

Livestock in mixed farming systems of the Hindu Kush-Himalayas: Trends and sustainability - Pradeep Man Tulachan; Arun Neupane;

Protecting mountain farmers rights in India - Professor Doctor Atul;

Mountain Forum: Network of networks - Ujol Sherchan;

Guidelines for planning and managing mountain protected areas - International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN);

Central Asia mountain ecosystems - Regional Environmental Centre for Central Asia;

In the face of disaster: Children and climate change - Paula McDiarmid;

Community based technology solutions: Adapting to climate change - Steve Thorne; Barry Kantor; Ijaz Hossain;

Mapping hunger in Ecuador: A report on mapping malnutrition prevalence - Beatrice Lorge Rogers; James Wirth; Kathy Macias; Parke Wilde;

Mountains of the world: Mountain forests and sustainable development - Mountain Agenda;

Sustainable tourism in the montane protected areas: Building partnership between NGOs’ and managers of protected areas - Piotr Dabrowski; Anna Dabrowska; Bartosz Szczechowicz;

Improving service delivery in Yunnan, China - Andreas Wilkes; Shen Shicai; Huang Yulu;

Greater voice for all mountain people in the Himalayan region - Michael Kollmair;

The dam and the damned - Upendra Mani Pradhan;

Climate: Voices from communities affected by climate change - Friends of the Earth International;

Agricultural ecosystems: Facts and trends - International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN); World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD);

Best practices in preventing and eliminating child labour through education - Winrock International;

Adapting to climate variability and change - International Resources Group (IRG);

Another inconvenient truth: How biofuel policies are deepening poverty and accelerating climate change - Robert Bailey;

An example to mountain geography: Yildiz Mountain and its tourism potential - Gülpinar Akbulut;

The role of medicinal plants in the provision of health care in Lao PDR - Claudio Oskar Delang;